Lineup for Arkansas State

We leave tomorrow morning and will be taking 6 guys as we have an individual playing this week.  Our lineup will be:

1. Taylor Cox
2. Alex Knoll
3. Mitchell Homb
4. Colin McCarty
5. Taylor White
IND.- Grant Wynia

Hope to see some of you down in Jonesboro this week!  Continue to check my twitter account @SIUEMensGolf for updates throughout the rounds on Monday and Tuesday.

Arkansas State Red Wolf Intercollegiate

After a couple weeks off after Samford's tournament we are ready to go this Saturday to Jonesboro, AR.  This is one of my favorite stops during the season.  It is a fun golf course that our teams seems to play well at.  They also treat you great at this tournament with great food and hospitality.  The field has always been good and deep at this tournament and this year is no different and maybe even a little tougher than years past.  It will be a great opportunity to see some teams we saw earlier in the year and pick up some wins!  This year's field includes: Arkansas State, Arkansas-Little Rock, Austin Peay, Depaul, Eastern Illinois, Jacksonville St., Louisiana Monroe, Meridan CC, Missouri State, Murray State, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma City, Oral Roberts, SIUC, SIUE, Tennessee-Martin, Tennessee State, Texas Pan American, Troy, Vanderbilt and Belmont.

We are taking one individual to this tournament who will play for a championship but not compete in our team score.  The lineup is almost set with one more round to complete.  I will post our lineup this week before we head down to Jonesboro.

After Arkansas State we will only be back on campus to two days before we head back on the road to Bloomington, IN to play in Indiana University's Invitational.  I will post more about that tournament and the teams competing next week!  Thanks again for reading (we surpassed 8,500 views) and hope to see some of you at the next couple of tournaments!!

Getting Ready For Arkansas State

We have a couple weeks off and are going to use this awesome weather to practice and play as much as we can.  We are having a 90 hole qualifier that will set our team for Arkansas State on April 2 and 3.  The 18 team field is very good and deep this year.  The course is one of my favorites that we play all year and love the way they treat us in Jonesboro. 

Remember that I have linked our twitter account to this blog that you can click on for more updates on the team.  You do not have to have an account to read the twitter updates.  Thanks again for following and your support!

Samford Invitational

We are back from Birmingham and the Samford Invitational.  Most of our guys are home for a little break from school and golf and will be ready to go when they get back on Monday.  We struggled at Samford, but I know these young men have so much talent ready to burst out I am so excited to get down to Jonesboro, AR in 3 weeks!  We struggled with the golf course down at Samford and didn't adjust like we needed to, but I still saw lots of positives from the guys.

We also got to golf our conference golf course, Greystone GC, in Dickson, TN on our way back to Edwardsville on Wednesday and really seemed to fit our team.  A links style golf course that is both scorable and tricky.  16,17 and 18 are great finishing holes that will put a great end to any conference championship too.  I hope the guys enjoyed the course as much as I did.

Below are the results from Samford:

1 Samford University       291  288  303    882   +18 
T  2 Austin Peay State U.     297  302  292    891   +27 
T  2 Davidson College         298  289  304    891   +27 
   4 Sam Houston St. U.       299  291  303    893   +29 
T  5 Belmont University       298  298  308    904   +40 
T  5 Western Carolina U.      313  293  298    904   +40 
T  5 Winthrop University      308  295  301    904   +40 
   8 Houston Baptist Univ     303  303  301    907   +43 
   9 Murray State Univ.       312  298  302    912   +48 
  10 Eastern Kentucky U.      310  303  304    917   +53 
  11 Air Force Academy        321  300  300    921   +57 
  12 Evansville, U. of        311  295  316    922   +58 
  13 Southern Illinois U.     305  318  303    926   +62 
  14 Illinois State U.        325  310  306    941   +77 
T 15 SIU Edwardsville         314  306  322    942   +78 
T 15 UT Martin                323  302  317    942   +78 
T 17 Nicholls State           321  312  316    949   +85 
T 17 Tennessee Tech U.        317  316  316    949   +85 

Samford Invitational

We finished our last qualifier today for the Samford Invitational and making the trip this week will be: Taylor White, Taylor Cox, Alex Knoll, Grant Wynia and Mitchell Homb.  This will be the third tournament in a row where we are using a different lineup.  This tournament has a great field and will be a very good test for our guys.  Teams that will be competing are: Samford, SIUE, SIUC, Tennessee Tech, Murray State, Sam Houston State, Air Force, Austin Peay, UT-Martin, Davidson, Belmont, Eastern Kentucky, Houston Baptist, Illinois State, Nicholls State, Winthop, Evansville and Western Carolina

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Dates:  Monday, March 5 – Tuesday, March 6

Schedule:  First two rounds will be played Monday, with the final round scheduled for Tuesday

Start times:  8 a.m. (CST) shotgun start Monday, followed by an 8:30 a.m., start Tuesday

Course:  Hoover Country Club (Par 72 - - 7,001 yards)

Location:  Hoover, Ala.

Snowman Getaway results

We are back from Phoenix with very successful results from the Snowman Getaway.  We shot 292-309-298 which was good enough from 8th place out of 16 teams.  Our guys played well for our first tournament of the spring and we beat some good teams.  After our first round 292 we were in fourth place and slipped to T-5 after 36 holes.  We played some good consistent golf in our last round shooting 298, but needed to go a little lower to keep pace with our playing partners, Washington State and UNC Greensboro.  We got some great experience playing with some really good teams and competing for another title.

SIUE Player Results:
Alex Knoll- 73-78-73=224--T-23rd
Mitchell Homb- 78-73-75=226--T-35th
Colin McCarty- 70-78-81= 229--50th
Taylor Cox- 75-80-75=230--T51st
Taylor White-74-81-75=230 --T51st

I want to thank all of our supporters who came out to watch us!  I think we might have had the most fans there!

1    UMKC                     288  304  285    877   +13 
   2 Missouri St. U.          292  303  283    878   +14 
   3 UNCG                     296  305  289    890   +26 
T  4 British Columbia, U.     284  312  295    891   +27 
T  4 St. John's Univ.         293  307  291    891   +27 
   6 Washington State U.      295  307  290    892   +28 
   7 Utah State Univ.         301  305  292    898   +34 
   8 SIU Edwardsville         292  309  298    899   +35 
   9 Utah Valley Univ.        297  304  301    902   +38 
  10 Loyola Univ-Maryland     290  312  303    905   +41 
  11 Gonzaga University       297  316  301    914   +50 
  12 Bradley University       298  321  296    915   +51 
  13 Seattle University       299  335  297    931   +67 
  14 North Dakota, U. of      310  317  308    935   +71 
  15 St. Bonaventure U.       312  336  315    963   +99 
  16 South Dakota, U. of      323  334  329    986  +122